- Iran is helping the Houthis try to secure Russian anti-ship missiles, Reuters reported.
- These could improve their attacks on ships in the Red Sea and threaten US warships, an expert said.
- Two officials said Houthis met Russians twice in Tehran this year, and more meetings are coming.
Iran is helping the Houthi rebels try to secure Russian anti-ship missiles, Reuters reported, citing three Western and regional sources.
Two regional officials aware of the talks said the Houthis and Russians have met at least twice this year in Tehran, where discussions to supply the missiles were underway.
They added that more meetings are expected in the coming weeks.
Oh no.
Holy shit guys.
An international power might leverage a proxy war to use cutting edge weapons against an enemy nation that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to.
Does that strike anyone else as a familiar refrain?
Just as a familiar refrain? It strikes me as basically half our GDP.
Absolutely.
But I was thinking more recent history. Like how the US is supplying advanced weaponry to Ukraine.
Pointing out such hypocrisy is my favorite passtime nowadays. And whether it’s here, reddit. Twitter, etc. It always gets me downvotes. Kinda disappointing that so many people are still blinded by nationalism.
What enemy nation are the Houthis at war with?
Israel. Which is clear if you’ve read even one of their announcements of the blockade.
And calling the leadership of Yemen Houthis is like calling any US person a Kennedy.
What does attacking cargo ships, flagged from Barbados, crewed by Filipinos, owned in Liberia, operated out of Greece, originating from China, and destined to Jeddah and Aqaba have to do with Israel?
Are they carrying goods destined for Israel?
Ah, yes, the enemy nation of civilian shipping. Truly dastardly.
The enemy nation of shipping going to a nation committing genocide.
Ansarallah, like Hezbollah, has made it clear that their blockade stops with the genocide. (EDIT: to be clear, Hezbollah had said they’d stop their support front. They’re not engaging in a blockade like Yemen.) When there was a ceasefire with prisoner exchange they both stopped. (Their respective actions.)
Leaving that bit out explicitly shows your bias.
The enemy nation of shipping going to a nation committing genocide.
Except for all those ships they’ve attacked that aren’t going to Israel, or controlled by Israel, or even have anything vaguely to do with Israel and her allies.
But sure, keep simping for attacking civilians because THESE ones are on YOUR side, right? “Our heroic killers vs. their dastardly murderers”
Except for all those ships they’ve attacked that aren’t going to Israel, or controlled by Israel, or even have anything vaguely to do with Israel and her allies.
Source? I thought they were only attacking ships that dock in/ship to Israel?
Also, have they killed/indefinitely detained anyone? Or just cause property damage?
Source? I thought they were only attacking ships that dock in/ship to Israel?
From the start, it’s been just taking targets of opportunity. Almost like their goal is just terrorism in service to boosting their own legitimacy as a player in the ongoing civil war.
Also, have they killed/indefinitely detained anyone? Or just cause property damage?
8 dead, 25 still detained.
A literal Israeli newspaper article about the blockade that has done the most economic damage to Israel to date as a source for how ineptly the people who have done the most damage to Israel are not doing it right. Oh, and it 403’s, currently.
Great sourcing there.
There is no ongoing civil war, too. It was won completely by Ansarallah against the puppet regime that Saudi Arabia and the US tried to install through forced starvation. This bullshit “Ongoing civil war” is just another example of refusing to acknowledge the winning side when people don’t like the fact they won.
it 403’s
Definitely a you problem. Loads fine for me.
Good.
Iran and the Houthis are doing what every ethical nation should be doing: enforcing a trade embargo on Israel for the crime of genocide.
Yeah, you go Houthis, sink that oil tanker owned by Singapore, with a destination of Egypt, in your own waters to create an environmental catastrophe! That will really show Israel!
If it stops goods from getting to Israel then it’s a successful blockade, which does hurt Israel
Oh, good, and the other 90% of ships they’ve attacked?
Acceptable collateral damage. I guess it’s okay to have worse ratios of targets-to-nontargets than the fucking Israelis if you say all the right anti-imperialist words.
I don’t think anyone on those tankers deserved to die but I also know that the hundreds of thousands killed in Gaza (and the West Bank) didn’t deserve to die. Yemen is putting up a blockade and saying we will keep doing this until the genocide stops. It might be ugly but its a good cause and theyre the only country taking a stand. I applaud that. No shipping from anywhere to anywhere should go through the gulf of aden until the mass slaughter ends
Does Russia have any functional weapons that they can spare at the moment?
Do they have boats left in the black sea?
bad iran i condemn this
